Brian

My local ENT and local hospital was not able to do anything advanced either. They did the tonsillectomy and freeze test but that was it. I would recommend that you ask for a referral to a hospital that specializes in head and neck cancers. Once I did I had a radical tonsillectomy done with robotics and a neck dissection. I could have chosen just radiation and chemo but I wanted to make sure I was clear in the tonsil area and that the lymph nodes were gone. I also learned from the surgery that I had extra capsular spread which they didn't think I had before the surgery. I had one doctor tell me "do you want to go somewhere they may have one patient a year or do you want to go somewhere that works with head and neck cancers daily". I asked for the referral.